期刊名称：International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1939-7038
出版年度：2010
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：95-105
DOI：10.1080/19397030903494837
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：Many businesses are recognising that environmental consciousness is an important concept for survival in today's highly competitive market. This paper presents a project in which quality function deployment (QFD) for environment (QFDE) has been applied to an Indian rotary switch manufacturing organisation to enable environmentally conscious design at the early stage of product development. QFDE consists of four phases. QFDE phases I and II are concerned with the identification of the rotary switch parts that are important in enhancing environmental consciousness. QFDE phases III and IV are concerned with the evaluation of the effect of design improvement on environmental quality requirements. The results obtained from the case study revealed that QFDE could be applied in the early stage of rotary switch product development as it identified the vital components from an environmental perspective and enabled the options for design improvement to be effectively evaluated. The managerial implications of the case study have also been presented.
关键词：Keywordsquality function deploymentenvironmentally conscious designenvironmental product designdesign for environmentrotary switches
